Antiarhythmics
These antiarhythmics decreased heart rate, prolonged AV node conduction, decreased myocardial contractility, and decreased myocardial oxygen demand
What is Beta Blockers
This medication is used for the treatment of Torsades de Pointes.
What is Magnesium Sulfate?
This medication is indicated in Cardiac Arrest.
What is Epinephrine?
These medications cause peripheral vasodilation.
What is Nitrates?
This procedure may be indicated in coronary arteries that have at least a 70% narrowing.
What is PCI?
This medication indicated for treating refractory (CPR, defibrillation, and vasopressor therapy) pulseless VT (pVT) and ventricular fibrillation (VF) as well as AF and flutter.
What is Amiodarone?
This medication is given as 6mg Rapid IV bolus followed by Rapid Saline Flush.
What is Adenosine?
This medication increases myocardial contractilitiy.
What is Dobutamine?
This potent arterial and venous vasodilator that is used to treat severe LV HF, hypertension after CABG, hypertensive crisis, and dissecting aneurysm.
What is Nitroprusside (Nipride)?
Patients with this condition were once not considered candidates for PCI.
What is Left Main CAD?
Thes two antiarhythmics are indicated as first-line drugs for AMI.
What is metoprolol and atenolol?
This first line drug is used for the treatment of symptomatic bradycardia.
What is Atropine?
This medication is usually given through a central line to enhance its distribution and to avoid extravasation, which may cause local vasoconstriction and tissue necrosis
What is Dopamine?
A venous and arterial vasodilator, reduces preload and afterload and increases cardiac output without increasing heart rate.
What is Nesiritide (Natrecor)?
The most overt symptom of a possible complication following a PCI.
What is myocardial ischemia? What is angina pectoris? What is chest pain?
These are contraindicated in patients who have a heart rate of less than 60 beats per minute.
What is beta blockers?
Symptoms of toxicity from this medication include palpitations, syncope, dysrhythmias, elevated digoxin level, anorexia, vomiting, diarrhea, nausea, fatigue, confusion, insomnia, headache, depression, vertigo, facial pain, and colored or blurred vision.
What is Digitalis Toxicity or What is Digoxin?
This medication works by causing peripheral vasoconstriction, increased blood pressure, and increased SVR.
What is Norepinephrine?
An adverse effect of this medication includes headache, hypotension, syncope, and tachycardia.
What is Nitroglycerine?
This provides counterpulsation designed to increase coronary artery perfusion pressure and blood flow during the diastolic phase of the cardiac cycle by inflation of a balloon in the thoracic aorta.
What is IABP?
This medication blocks the rapid potassium current channel, prolonging the action potential duration and refractory period. These drugs may cause a prolonged QT interval and torsades de pointes. Therefore, close monitoring of the QTC is required upon initiation of the medication. These medications have fewer systemic adverse effects than amiodarone and sotalol.
What is dofetilide (Tikosyn)?
This medication can also used for refractory VT and VF, as well as for life-threatening dysrhythmias from digitalis toxicity.
What is Magnesium Sulfate?
This medication is given as an alternative to epinephrine for treating shock-refractory VF, asystole, or PEA but has been removed from the 2015 ACLS guideline, because there is no therapeutic benefit to giving it in lieu of epinephrine.
What is Vasopressin?
This medication is sensitive to light, the infusion bag must be covered with an opaque material to prevent the drug’s degradation.
What is Nitroprusside (Nipride)?
This invasive procedure used for treating tachydysrhythmias.
What is Catheter Ablation?